Overall Objectives:
Students must be able to:
  • analyze, evaluate, and differentiate primary and secondary sources.
  • gain knowledge from challenging texts that often use elaborate diagrams and data to convey information and illustrate concepts.
  • read challenging informational text independently and confidently.
Reading Standards for Nonfiction Text in Social Studies:
Key Ideas and Details:
Students must be able to:
  • cite evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
  • determine main ideas from a primary or secondary source omitting prior knowledge or opinions.
  • identify key steps in a text's description of a process of something related to history (how a bill becomes a law, how interest rates are raised/lowered).
Craft and Structure:
Students must be able to:
  • determine the meaning of words/phrases as they are used in the text especially words related to social studies.
  • describe how a text presents information (sequence, compare/contrast, causally).
  • identify pieces from the text that show the author's point of view and/or author's purpose.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:
Students must be able to:
  • integrate visual informaton (charts, graphs, photographs, videos, maps) with other information in print and digital text.
  • identify fact/opinion and reasoned judgment in a text.
  • distinguish and analyze between primary and secondary sources.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity:
Studnets must be able to:
  • read and comprehend complex grade level texts independently and proficiently by the end of eighth grade.